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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ZAOHARIE ROUSSIN AND DANIEL AUGUSTE ROSENSTIEHL, or PARIS FRANCE, ASSIGNORS TO sooIn'rE' ANONYME DEs MATIERES ooLoRANrEs ET PRODUITS OHIMIQUES DE ST. DENIS, OF SAME PLACE.

MANUFACTURE OF BROMATED AZO COLORING-MATTERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,882, dated December 30, 1884.

Application filed February 1, 1883. (Specimens) Patented in France November 29, 188-2, No. 140,114, and in England November 30, 1882, No. 5,696.

Coloring-Mattersof which the following specification is a full description.

This invention relates to the production of brominized or bromated azoic coloring-matro ters; audit consists inintroducing thebromine directly into the coloring-matter after thelatter has been formed. The coloring-matters which we have obtained by direct bromination of azoic coloring-matters are soluble in r cold Water, and adapted to the dyeing of mordanted cotton, and in color vary from clear yellow to orange.

Bromine acts rapidly upon the azoic color ing-matters and forms products which do not always differ in color from the generating coloring substances. Sometimes,however,modifications of the shade are produced, the product of the reaction becoming a little more reddish or greenish than the original color.

The direct addition of bromine, although it produces slight changes in the color, impart-s to the coloring-matters a greater aptitude to unite with textile fabries,and this quality gives to them a true industrial value, it being found that the directly bromated azoic coloring-matsolved in five hundred liters of alkaline water are added, and the liquid acidified with one hundred and thirty kilograms of sulphuric acid. lVhen the reaction is complete, neutrali zation is effected by means of a suitable base, and the coloring-matter is precipitated in the ordinary manner by means of common salt.

The process just described may be applied with but little modification to other known azoic coloring-matters which will give anal- 5o. ogous results. We do not limit ourselves to the proportions indicated, nor to the method described of causing the bromine to react.

Among the brominized azoic coloring-matters other than orange I, which may be produced by direct bromination, may be mentioned those from thereaction of naphthol alpha ornaphtholbetaupondiazo,paradiazo,ormetadiazo phenysulphonic acid,also those from the reaction of dimethylaniliue or diphenylamine 60. upon the same acid; also those from reactions of the same substances (naphthol alpha or beta dimethylaniline or diphenylamine) upon diazocresylsulphonic acid, or the corresponding acid of otho and para toluidine.

l. The process of producing brominized azoic coloring matters by introducing the bromine directly into the coloring-matter after the latter has been formed, substantially as described.

2. The yellow and orange brominized azoic coloring-matters, of which brominized orange I is an example, the same beingsoluble in Water, produced by direct bromination, and adapted to the dyeing of mordanted cotton, substantially as described.

In witness whereof we-have hereunto signed our names in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ZACHARIE ROUSSIN. DANIEL AUGUSIE ROSENSTIEHL.

Witnesses:

ROBT. M. HooPnR, DAVID T. S. FULLER. 

